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Quotes About Thought

This place may indeed be haunted," he thought, "perhaps by the delighted soul of Sir Walter Raleigh, patron of the weed, but seemingly not by the proprietors.
~ Christopher Morley
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
~ Christopher Paolini
The sound of water says what I think.
~ Unknown
Train up your mind in the way it should think. So when it has thought,it shall not be far from good.
~ Unknown
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
~ Cicero
Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.
~ Cindy Adams
The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions.
~ Cioran
Maybe that's what made a memory powerful. Not that it happened once, but that it happened over and over again on the screen of your mind.
~ Unknown
Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?
~ Unknown
What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things.
~ Unknown
and before tomorrow was coming to an end, he knew his mind would already be working in much the same way, yet again, over the day that was to follow.
~ Unknown
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
~ Clarence Darrow
To think is an act. To feel is a fact.
~ Clarice Lispector
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
~ Clarice Lispector
Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to express ends up being the most secret of my secrets. I know that I'm scared of the moments in which I don't use thought and that's a momentary state that is difficult to reach, and which, entirely secret, no longer uses words with which thoughts are produce. Is not using words to lose your identity? is it getting lost in the harmful essential shadows?
~ Clarice Lispector
I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that frees me. I could manage to have pleasure if I abstained from thinking. Then I'd feel the ebb and flow of air in my lungs.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?
~ Clarice Lispector
Pensar es un acto. Sentir es un hecho. Los dos juntos son yo que escribo lo que estoy escribiendo. Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable.
~ Clarice Lispector
But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words.
~ Clarice Lispector
Eu antes era uma mulher que sabia distinguir as coisas quando as via. Mas agora cometi o erro grave de pensar.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mas tenho medo do que é novo e tenho medo de viver o que não entendo, quero sempre ter a garantia de pelo menos estar pensando que entendo, não sei me entregar à desorientação.
~ Clarice Lispector
O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que digo. [...] Cada vez mais escrevo com menos palavras. Meu livro melhor acontecerá quando eu de todo não escrever. Eu tenho uma falta de assunto fundamental.
~ Clarice Lispector
Si esta historia no existe, pasará a existir. Pensar es un acto. Sentir es un hecho.
~ Clarice Lispector
La libertad en sí -como acto de percepción- no tiene forma. Y como el verdadero pensamiento se piensa a sí mismo, esa especie de pensamiento alcanza su objeto en el propio acto del pensar.
~ Clarice Lispector